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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as girls)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,118,398 ratings — published 1908
Matilda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as girls)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,114,981 ratings — published 1988
Charlotte’s Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as girls)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,053,614 ratings — published 1952
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as girls)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,301,398 ratings — published 1911
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as girls)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,471,864 ratings — published 1868
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as girls)
avg rating 3.95 — 256,481 ratings — published 1970
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as girls)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,465,741 ratings — published 2002
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as girls)
avg rating 4.20 — 64,861 ratings — published 2005
The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as girls)
avg rating 4.30 — 121,002 ratings — published 2003
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as girls)
avg rating 3.85 — 735,119 ratings — published 2001
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as girls)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,209,174 ratings — published 1947
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as girls)
avg rating 4.15 — 209,741 ratings — published 1945
Princess Academy (Princess Academy, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as girls)
avg rating 4.04 — 122,184 ratings — published 2005
A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as girls)
avg rating 4.33 — 80,441 ratings — published 2004
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as girls)
avg rating 4.04 — 664,670 ratings — published 2002
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as girls)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,162,213 ratings — published 1950
Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as girls)
avg rating 4.02 — 424,340 ratings — published 1997
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as girls)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,198,977 ratings — published 2012
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as girls)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,915,817 ratings — published 1960
A Little Princess (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as girls)
avg rating 4.23 — 331,027 ratings — published 1905
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as girls)
avg rating 4.06 — 591,939 ratings — published 1977
Because of Winn-Dixie (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as girls)
avg rating 4.10 — 280,080 ratings — published 2000
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as girls)
avg rating 4.16 — 219,587 ratings — published 1967
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as girls)
avg rating 4.20 — 623,149 ratings — published 1989
Beezus and Ramona (Ramona, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as girls)
avg rating 4.03 — 103,988 ratings — published 1955
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as girls)
avg rating 3.99 — 851,176 ratings — published 1974
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as girls)
avg rating 4.21 — 286,478 ratings — published 1932
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as girls)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,959,277 ratings — published 2008
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as girls)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,394,054 ratings — published 2011
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as girls)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,289,366 ratings — published 1962
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as girls)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,465,664 ratings — published 1997
Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as girls)
avg rating 4.21 — 302,473 ratings — published 1935
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as girls)
avg rating 3.88 — 350,520 ratings — published 1960
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as girls)
avg rating 4.00 — 35,880 ratings — published 2009
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as girls)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,454,359 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as girls)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,516,650 ratings — published 1998
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as girls)
avg rating 3.78 — 416,188 ratings — published 1993
Ivy and Bean (Ivy & Bean, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as girls)
avg rating 3.96 — 17,866 ratings — published 2006
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as girls)
avg rating 4.03 — 572,247 ratings — published 1999
Tuesdays at the Castle (Castle Glower, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as girls)
avg rating 4.12 — 23,445 ratings — published 2011
Madeline (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as girls)
avg rating 4.27 — 219,090 ratings — published 1939
Clementine (Clementine, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as girls)
avg rating 3.96 — 22,043 ratings — published 2006
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as girls)
avg rating 4.32 — 54,412 ratings — published 2009
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as girls)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,868,400 ratings — published 1999
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as girls)
avg rating 3.95 — 565,187 ratings — published 2001
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as girls)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,232,812 ratings — published 1963
The Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as girls)
avg rating 3.51 — 244,071 ratings — published 2016
The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as girls)
avg rating 4.49 — 116,029 ratings — published 2015
The Hundred Dresses (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as girls)
avg rating 4.11 — 42,178 ratings — published 1944
“Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her.
I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I’m not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain…
I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn’t seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? ‘You’ve lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!’
‘Well,’ I said, slightly nonplussed, ‘the last time you saw me I’d just had a baby.’
What I felt like saying was, ‘I’ve produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Aren’t either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?’ But no – my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate!
I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.”
―
I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I’m not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain…
I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn’t seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? ‘You’ve lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!’
‘Well,’ I said, slightly nonplussed, ‘the last time you saw me I’d just had a baby.’
What I felt like saying was, ‘I’ve produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Aren’t either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?’ But no – my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate!
I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.”
―
“That's the pathetic thing about high school. Everyone tries so hard to be something they aren't. It's gotten so I don't know who I am, so how can I even try to be who I am, much less who I'm not?
My problem is that I don't even fit in with the misfits.
I don't fit anywhere.”
― Bad Girls Don't Die
My problem is that I don't even fit in with the misfits.
I don't fit anywhere.”
― Bad Girls Don't Die
